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Christina (Boston, MA), 9/27/2013
We ordered an assortment of wine stoppers as wedding favors and they were a huge hit. The only reason these aren't 5 stars is because the boxes fit a little too snugly on the stoppers making the bottom jut out a little, but other than that they were great. I would definitely recommend these!
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Erica (Washington, DC), 6/9/2013
I purchased these at the favors for a bridal shower. They arrived in a timely fashion. As previously stated, the boxes that they come in are pretty cheap and flimsy but the price is right and it's not worth paying extra from other websites just for a nicer box. Overall, great but for the price!
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Waseema (Chicago, IL), 9/25/2011
The wine stopper diamond ring party favors were a hit at my sister's bridal shower. They are very cute and classy. However the ring box that they came in were kind of flimsy. The plastic top kept coming off and wasn't stable when put back on. It wasn't a huge deal but it would've been nice to have them set in a black velvet box as I seen on another website but they were much higher in price. These were nicely priced at Nice Party Favors which helped tremendously with the amount of them that I ordered. Great gift.
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Came across a Ruger blackhawk .44 mag that was converted to .50AE. The gun is gorgeous BUT...Is the conversion even possible to do and still have the gun be safe to shoot? Granted anything can probably be done for insane amounts of $$$ but within reason? Id be wary of the barrel and cylinder not being able to withstand the pressures. I cant find anything anywhere, where people have done it to a revolver. Lever marlin, yes. any thoughts?
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It depends on who did the conversion. It is a 5 shot now?? Guy like Bowen classics and a few others do those conversions and the handgun might have the smithy's name on it. If done by one the few experts I would not worry about the build any more than any other revolover. Saami Pressure is the same as the 44mag at 36,000psi
6 shot 50AE !! AVOID that handgun. Yea a couple guys have been doing custom 5 shooters for atleast 25 years . Probably a heck of a lot longer. Keep an eye out for a dan wesson large frame revolver. They loaded some really odd cartidges thru the years .
I shot a friends black hawk that was rechambered for 475 linebaugh. The gun handled it ok but its the worst recoil I ever experienced in a hand gun Felt like some one popped a baloon in my face and slapped my in palm with a 2x4.
Many Super Hawks have been converted to 45-70. They cut and extend the frame and cylinder. I think I would buy a Marlin Guide gun.
With some of the hot .44 loads out there that will match a .50AE in energy,and it already being a Ruger,which are known for their strength,my question is-WHY?
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I dunno but this conversion just doesn't seem to attractive to me. Not on a safety issue or anything. I've seen a few of them and shot one. I guess it's more a I have no problem with a 44 mag. So it's like a solution looking for a problem.
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First off, races now provide only benefits and no negatives.
Here are the PHB I races:
We also have a bunch of new races now since PHB II came out
And now DDI is adding a few more to the game as well.
And if that wasn't exciting enough, we have PHB 3 races on top of that! We're just getting absolutely spoiled now:
Then there are the races from the campaign setting books. First Forgotten Realms:
And the Eberron players guide added a bunch of them as well.
Players Handbook 3 added some more races! Before clicking, it's worth noting that all these races get a fixed bonus score and then a choice of adding +2 to one of two other stats, like the Eberron changeling, which is a good decision.
Introducing the Classes:
Every class now has a "Role" within the party, and a party is recommended to have every role represented to succeed, though it need not have to. It is considered "pro" to have proper party balance.
We also have some new PHB II classes just to add to the excitement and the EPG has the artificer!
finally last but not least is the new DDI exclusive class, the Assassin
Of course now we have even MORE classes with PHB 3 and dear god I'll try to restrain myself here about the new additions to the family "Psionics".
DM/Player Tools and Helpful Links
- A spreadsheet with all the magic items from the PHB, organized by Item Level and Body Slot (and subtype, in the case of Weapons, Armor and Implements) (Credit DVG)
- RPTools: Pretty useful for playing D&D over the internet. Get Maptool HERE
- Ability Generator from WotC
- Wizards' main site for D&D
- Enworld resource site for tabletop games
- Myth-Weavers Forum's character sheet tool. Has sheets for many games, including 4e
- H1 Keep on the Shadowfell for maptools
- Rescue at Rivenroar
- Asmor.com's Monster Maker makes a cool looking statblock, similar to the MM ones (thanks, Hexmage)
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D&D Insider has gone into subscription beta mode. What that means is, for three preset payment structures, you can access all of the online content Wizards is producing exclusively for Insider members without restriction. There are currently demos available for all the previously released content, listed below:
- D&D Compendium from WotC
- Dragon and Dungen magazines also from WotC
- Encounter Tool from WotC
More and more exclusive content will be added each month. Also, Insider subscribers will be included along with those who signed up at D&D Convention events in the closed beta testing for the new Character Builder application, the next tool on the slate to be released for the Insider. So, what are the prices, you ask?
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- $23.85 for 3 months - $7.95 per month
- $9.95 for month
To subscribe to the D&D Insider service, click here. Prices went up in July, seems about a dollar an issue for a 12 month subscription.
You can find screenshots of the Character builder here.
Hachface wrote:If any edition were going to do it right it would've been this one. Shame shame.
Githzerai: Everyones favourite astral monks are back and now a player race! They make pretty decent monks (as you would expect), and their stat spread make them okay for many other classes (as they get +2 wisdom and a choice of +2 int or dex.
Minotaur: Yeah, minotaurs are now a playable PC race, probably inspired off the more noble and civilized minotaurs of dragonlance. They haven't changed much since their dragon racial write up, but do get strength and their choice of con or wisdom - making them more flexible in what classes they can play.
Shardmind: These are the leftovers of a defensive gate or similar from the Far Realm that shattered, leaving them behind. Sentient crystal people like constructs, Shardminds get +2 int and then a choice of +2 wisdom or charisma making them excellent psions and wizards.
Wilden: Plant People from the feywild who are a "young" race that has arisen to fight the abominations of the far realm. They get +2 wisdom (this was definitely the +wisdom book) and +2 con or dex.
DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »Hachface wrote:If any edition were going to do it right it would've been this one. Shame shame.
Honestly 3.5 psionics wasn't too bad, probably the best of the lot. There were a couple powers that were just fucking stupid but the same could be said of spells.
1st - Completely random, surprising the number of people who could consistently roll 100 on d%.
2nd- Created results wildly at odds with other classes, kept similar random super awesome if you roll good bit.
3.0- Some absurd powers and borderline unplayable because of the stat requirements for powers. Random super powers removed.
3.5 - Some absurd augments of powers, generally not to bad. It's a point based Sorcerer kind of thing.
It's like consistency with the previous version is to take a bad part and include it in the new version.
Yeah, some times I just want to get my farm in shape without being bothered by green explosive dildos.
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If an eladrin is falling towards the ground from a height of several hundred feet and uses fey step before hitting the ground, does he land safely or does teleportation retain velocity? Does he turn into a splat five squares away?
If an eladrin is falling towards the ground from a height of several hundred feet and uses fey step before hitting the ground, does he land safely or does teleportation retain velocity? Does he turn into a splat five squares away?
If a charging Barbarian is force-moved as an immediate reaction to their move, do they end up using their Rage Strike on their party cleric instead?
(I'm pretty sure these are both, DM rule as you will situations.)
(psionics in 3.5 was only really terrible when multiclassing got involved... but i suppose multiclassing was probably the most broken thing in general about 3.5)
I think it depends on the exact wording though; if it's an immediate reaction like "an enemy moves adjacent to you" then the Barbarian could continue.
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Creatures that interact with the affected creature can make an Insight check against your Arcana check to perceive the deception only if the affected creature does something blatantly wrong, such as being unable to speak Giant or failing to regenerate. - from today's Ritually Speaking article "Donning Trollflesh" ritual.
ravensmuse wrote: »It is six in the morning. What am I doing on here?
Shaking my cane at you whippersnappers bitching about TSR and 2e. Back in my day...
Would there be enough interest in a 2e pbp, I wonder? Enough people with books? Maybe we'll make a gauntlet run through Ravenloft's bordellos and see who comes out on the other side.
I think it depends on the exact wording though; if it's an immediate reaction like "an enemy moves adjacent to you" then the Barbarian could continue.
The barbarian stops in the square adjacent to you as part of the charge and tries to attack, the reaction triggers to the movement and moves away. The charge attack instantly fails.
The reason for this is the reacting creature starts a "loop" effectively asking "Have you stopped moving?" and doesn't react to the movement until the triggering creature basically has to say yes. Then reacts to the completed move interrupting the attack and shifts back - the attack instantly fails. Immediate reactions basically always screw charges - you should never charge creatures that can react to your charge - because they simply start the "is your move complete" loop and you're finished.
Are implement users (like Monks) at a disadvantage to their attack rolls compared to the weapon-wielding classes? Our group started a new game this weekend, and my monk's to-hit was noticeably less than our rogue's.
Kayne Red Robe wrote: »Regarding teleportation to stop a fall, I would rule that the distance travelled during the teleport is removed from the distance for calculating falling damage, but the rest of the fall will still deal damage. E.g. An Eladrin ranger falls from a 100ft cliff, she Fey Steps the last 25 ft, and takes damage as if she had fallen 75 ft. (Are squares still assumed to be five feet)?


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Nap Rucker was one of the Deadball Era's top left-handed pitchers. Brooklyn's winning percentage was an even .500 when the hard-throwing Southerner got the decision, but without him the Superbas played .430 ball, losing 175 more games than they won. "The Rucker appendage is the only thing that has kept Brooklyn in the league," wrote the New York Herald, while the Brooklyn Eagle lamented that "the fates have tied him up with an aggregation that has steadfastly refused to make a bid for championship honors." Still, the gentlemanly Rucker loved pitching for the blue-collar borough. "It's got New York beaten by three bases," he told a reporter in 1912. "You can get a good night's rest in Brooklyn. You meet more real human beings in Brooklyn. Your life is safer in Brooklyn."
The son of a former Confederate soldier, George Napoleon Rucker was born on September 30, 1884, in Crabapple, Georgia, just north of Atlanta. As a red-headed youth he worked as a printer's apprentice, and one day he was given a headline to set in type: "$10,000 FOR PITCHING A BASEBALL." That moment, Rucker always claimed, was when he decided to become a pitcher. He joined a local semipro team and caught the eye of the Southern League's Atlanta Crackers, who signed him on a trial basis. Years later, Bill Nye, the famous bodyguard to presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, claimed he was the scout who recommended Rucker to Atlanta. Nap pitched his first professional game on September 2, 1904, but was farmed out to Augusta at season's end.
Rucker's teammates on the 1905 Augusta team included Eddie Cicotte, Clyde Engle, and a 19-year-old Ty Cobb. The two Georgians roomed together and often went to the park early so Cobb could practice hitting against left-handed pitching. That season Nap became one of the first players to experience his roommate's fury firsthand. When they arrived home after each game, Cobb would bathe first, then Rucker, but one day Nap was knocked out of the game and left the park early. Cobb arrived home to find Nap already in the bathtub and flew into a rage, attempting to choke the naked Rucker. "You don't understand," Cobb seethed, "I've just got to be first--all the time." After compiling a 13-11 record in 1905, Rucker returned to Augusta the next year and got off to a spectacular start, prompting rumors that the Philadelphia Athletics were about to purchase him. The deal fell through, however, and Nap finished the 1906 season in the Sally League, ending up at 27-9.
That off-season the Brooklyn Superbas drafted Rucker for $500. The 22-year-old rookie quickly established himself as the staff's ace, more than earning his $1,900 salary by going 15-13 and leading the team in innings (275), strikeouts (131), and ERA (2.06). Rucker was even better in his sophomore season, somehow winning 17 games for a team that lost 101. The highlight came at Washington Park on September 5, 1908, when he pitched a no-hitter, striking out 14 Boston Doves. Three years later Nap flirted with a second no-hitter, pitching 8.2 hitless innings against Cincinnati on July 22, 1911, before Bob Bescher bounced a chopper up the middle for a single.
In 1909 Rucker set a career-high with 201 strikeouts, and on July 24 of that season he struck out 16 St. Louis Cardinals, tying the modern record that stood until Dizzy Dean broke it in 1933. (Nap always claimed that he fanned 17 that day, but a lackadaisical official scorer whose name he still remembered--Abe Yager--forgot to record one of them.) Once again he was the best pitcher on a terrible team, going 13-19 despite a 2.24 ERA. His record improved to 17-18 in 1910, the year he led the NL with 320 innings pitched, 27 complete games, and six shutouts. Rucker started 1911 with six consecutive losses--during which Brooklyn scored a total of 10 runs--but rebounded to post the only 20-win season of his career, finishing at 22-18. In 1912, however, he reached the 20-loss plateau, going 18-21 despite a 2.21 ERA, more than a full run better than the league average.
All the strikeouts, no-hit bids, and low ERAs brought Rucker acclaim as one of the NL's fastest pitchers. On October 6, 1912, he and Walter Johnson became the first to have their throwing speed scientifically measured when they submitted to testing at the Remington Arms Plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Using copper wires set up several feet apart, the rudimentary test measured the amount of time it took the pitches to travel a given distance. It almost certainly underestimated the pitcher's speed: Rucker tested at 113 feet per second (77 mph), Johnson at 122 (83 mph). When not subjecting himself to speed-throwing experiments, the Brooklyn lefthander spent his off-seasons as a typesetter for the Marietta Free Press, a newspaper owned by a cousin. To his managers' dismay, he also spent much of his winters eating peanuts and ice cream. Never one for vigorous training, Rucker routinely reported to camp weighing 210 lbs., though by Opening Day he was usually down to his playing weight of 180.
By 1913 Rucker's fastball had begun to fade, and he started throwing a strange, particularly effective slow curve--called "the slowest ball in the history of the majors" by one reporter. Nap claimed he learned the pitch with Augusta when he accidentally gripped the ball the wrong way, but another story attributes its origin to a 1913 thumb injury that forced him to change his grip. Others, meanwhile, claimed that the pitch was an early version of the knuckleball. Whatever it was, reporter Dan Daniel called it "one of the amazing phenomena of baseball history." Rucker relied on it to put together one last workhorse season, pitching 260 innings and ending up at 14-15, after which he was named baseball's best left-handed pitcher in a poll of sportswriters.
In 1914, however, Rucker had developed a sore arm, and for his last three seasons he pitched effectively only with two weeks rest. The veteran southpaw then became a mentor to many of Brooklyn's younger players. "When I broke in I couldn't hit a low ball," recalled Casey Stengel. "Nap took me to the park every morning and fed me low balls. If it hadn't been for him I reckon I wouldn't have even stayed in baseball." But still there was one thing that had eluded Nap during the course of an otherwise successful career. "I would give a great deal of money to have my club in a World's Series," Charles Ebbets told Damon Runyon in 1915, "if only for the honor it would bring Rucker. I will always regard him as one of the greatest men the game has produced--greatest in every way."
On August 1, 1916, Rucker pitched 5.2 innings of scoreless relief against Cincinnati to earn the 134th and final victory of his major league career. The win evened his lifetime record at 134-134, with 28 percent of those victories coming by shutout (the second-highest percentage in history, behind only Ed Walsh). His career 2.42 ERA was 85 percent of the league average, which was 2.85 over the same period. To honor its best pitcher of the Deadball Era, Brooklyn held a "Nap Rucker Day" at Ebbets Field on October 2, 1916. "I will not monkey around with baseball any more," the veteran southpaw said on the occasion. "I have had my day, and it has been a long one, in which I have made money and gained thousands of friends." Knowing that Rucker would retire after the season, Wilbert Robinson allowed him two innings of mop-up duty in Game Four of the 1916 World's Series. Rucker pitched scoreless ball, striking out three Red Sox in his swansong.
In retirement Nap Rucker returned to Great Oaks, his mansion in Roswell, Georgia. There he owned the local wheat mill, became an investor in the town bank, presided over two small cotton plantations, and umpired occasionally in sandlot baseball games. He also scouted the South for the Dodgers, finding such players as Dazzy Vance, Al Lopez, and Hugh Casey. Feeling the pinch of the Great Depression, Brooklyn declined to renew his contract in 1934, at which time he ran unopposed for mayor. Rucker was a segregationist Democrat; as one writer put it, "he could not be anything else politically and still be a Georgian." As mayor during the New Deal, the former pitcher was instrumental in bringing running water to Roswell and later served as the town's water commissioner for several decades.
In 1939 the Dodgers re-hired Nap as a scout, and the following year his nephew Johnny Rucker made his major league debut with the New York Giants. After a brief stint working for the US Government in Panama during World War II, Nap Rucker and his wife, Edith, whom he had married during the 1911 season, returned to Georgia. There they lived in semi-retirement until Nap died at age 86 on December 19, 1970.
Note: A slightly different version of this biography appeared in Tom Simon, ed., Deadball Stars of the National League (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, Inc., 2004).
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Julianne Moore stopped briefly on the red carpet ahead of the Golden Globes to talk about playing Sarah Palin in "Game Change," the HBO film chronicling John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
"I had a tremendous amount of trepidation," she said. "When you're doing something on someone so well known in the news, it's a big hurdle to get over. But we worked really hard and and did a lot of research to be as accurate as possible."
Moore's performance as the failed vice presidential candidate earned her a nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie. She's up against Nicole Kidman, "Hemingway & Gellhorn"; Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story: Asylum"; Sienna Miller, "The Girl"; and Sigourney Weaver, "Political Animals."
A gallery of the awards -- and HuffPost's liveblog of the proceedings -- can be found below.
It was a big night for "Girls," "Homeland," "Argo," Ben Affleck, "Les Miserables," Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Jodie Foster.
For a full list of winners from the 2013 Golden Globes, click here.
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After being introduced by Robert Downey Jr., Foster coyly said, "While I'm here being all confessional, I just have the sudden urge to say something I've never been able to air in public. A declaration that I'm a little nervous about. Not quite as nervous as my publicist, huh, Jennifer? But uh, you know, I'm just going to put it out there. Loud and proud. I'm going to need your support. I am -- single!"
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Hot on the heels of EA CEO John Riccitiello's announcement that his company will feature paid downloadable content (PDLC) in every one of its 2010 titles, the LA Times says we can expect the entire industry to make a strategic DLC shift this year in an effort to combat shrinking retail revenues.
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Shilpa, MC and Sen, R and Samudre, S and Gadagkar, R (2011) Males, but not females, mate with multiple partners: a laboratory study of a primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. In: Insectes Sociaux, 59 (1). pp. 61-65.
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The intense interest in social Hymenoptera, on account of their elaborate sociality and the paradox of altruism, has often suffered from considerable gender imbalance. This is partly due to the fact that worker behaviour and altruism are restricted to the females and partly because males often live off the nest. Yet, understanding the males, especially in the context of mating biology is essential even for understanding the evolution of sociality. Mating patterns have a direct bearing on the levels of intra-colony genetic relatedness, which in turn, along with the associated costs and benefits of worker behaviour, are central to our understanding of the evolution of sociality. Although mating takes place away from the nest in natural colonies of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata, mating can be observed in the laboratory if a male and a female are placed in a transparent, aerated plastic container, and both wasps are in the range of 5-20 days of age. Here, we use this setup and show that males, but not females, mate serially with multiple partners. The multiple mating behaviour of the males is not surprising because in nature males have to mate with a number of females, only a few of whom will go on to lay eggs. The reluctance of R. marginata females to mate with multiple partners is consistent with the expectation of monogamy in primitively eusocial species with totipotent females, although the apparent discrepancy with a previous work with allozyme markers in natural colonies suggesting that females may sometimes mate with two or three different males remains to be resolved.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Springer. |
Keywords: | Social wasps;Ropalidia marginata;Mating behaviour;Multiple mating |
Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2012 04:48 |
Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2012 04:48 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/id/eprint/43428 |
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Is there a way to tell make not to query the user with a sysinstall type screen? I'd like to have make accept all the defaults for each application. This way I can perhaps automate an install of a bunch of applications at once.
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Small Biz Memphis will host the Cordova/Bartlett and East Memphis/Midtown Business Builders Circle meetings Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, from 7:45 a.m. to 9 a.m. at 1661 International Drive, suite 400. The Germantown/Collierville meeting will be Thursday at 7:45 a.m. at 2176 West St., suite 110. For more information, call 205-9303.
The Memphis Technology Council will host Thomas Danford, chief information officer of the Tennessee Board of Regents, today at 11:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn-University of Memphis, 3700 Central Ave. The luncheon is $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. For more information or to register, call 543-3547.
The Pink Palace Museum will present "An Evening with Ardent" today from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Pink Palace Mansion Theatre, 3050 Central Ave. Ardent Studios has inspired Led Zeppelin, Issac Hayes, B.B King and Al Green, among many others. Admission to the event and parking are both free. For more information, call 320-6362.


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